Who Should I be Why pink is for girls and blue for boys? Why women have to stay at home and become housewives while men have to work outside? Why female is viewed as the weak and more evil side of the two? Throughout the human histories, women are often required to fulfill certain gender roles the society set up upon them. In the novel of Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel and Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, the female protagonists Tita and Emma use fervor of the youth to conform the social expectations while challenge them through portray of motherhood and relationship with men. Trying to focus herself into being the perfect sister that obeys orders from Mama Elena, Tita devotes herself into cuisine. After seeing Pedro married
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When the baby is delivered, his mother, Rosaura, is too weak to give him milk to satisfy his hunger. With no possible solution, Tita decides to feed her nephew with her nipple and magically, she is able to produce milk from her own breast. When Pedro sees the scene,“smiling delightedly he went over to them, bent down, and kisses Tita on the forehead” (Esquivel 76). Mama Elena has always wish Tita to be emotionless that Tita could take care of her without distraction and hope to escape, but the nature of Tita continues to challenge her expectations. Through the description of Tita nurturing the kid while Pedro looking at them gives the readers an impression of a happy family and the author uses the words “delighted” and “kissed on the forehead” to create a sense of happiness and love that convinces readers that Tita deserves to be the mother of Pedro’s son and Rosaura is merely an outsider. An ironic disparity existes between the two sister: Tita, a desirable nurturer, who is abled to produce milk even though she is a virgin and does not permit to be a mother, and Rosaura, an undesirable and incompetent mother, who does not have the ability to raise her own child but nevertheless gives birth to one.The love between Tita and Pedro provides Tita the power to produce milk and controverts to Mama Elena’s wish, their relationship is actually strengthened because the kid creates a bond between the two as the father and the nurturer. To accomplish the role of a mother presents Tita a chance to transmit the forbidden love to Pedro and create an unbreakable chain between the two that is strictly prohibited by Mama
When the baby is delivered, his mother, Rosaura, is too weak to give him milk to satisfy his hunger. With no possible solution, Tita decides to feed her nephew with her nipple and magically, she is able to produce milk from her own breast. When Pedro sees the scene,“smiling delightedly he went over to them, bent down, and kisses Tita on the forehead” (Esquivel 76). Mama Elena has always wish Tita to be emotionless that Tita could take care of her without distraction and hope to escape, but the nature of Tita continues to challenge her expectations. Through the description of Tita nurturing the kid while Pedro looking at them gives the readers an impression of a happy family and the author uses the words “delighted” and “kissed on the forehead” to create a sense of happiness and love that convinces readers that Tita deserves to be the mother of Pedro’s son and Rosaura is merely an outsider. An ironic disparity existes between the two sister: Tita, a desirable nurturer, who is abled to produce milk even though she is a virgin and does not permit to be a mother, and Rosaura, an undesirable and incompetent mother, who does not have the ability to raise her own child but nevertheless gives birth to one.The love between Tita and Pedro provides Tita the power to produce milk and controverts to Mama Elena’s wish, their relationship is actually strengthened because the kid creates a bond between the two as the father and the nurturer. To accomplish the role of a mother presents Tita a chance to transmit the forbidden love to Pedro and create an unbreakable chain between the two that is strictly prohibited by Mama